The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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More and more people are making their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites - areas in which wildfires are more likely to occur. Wildfires often begin unnoticed. They spread quickly, igniting brush, trees, and homes. CDC recommends…
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Over 2,200 wildfires occur in the United States each year. In March of 2006 residents in the Texas panhandle suffered through over a week of devastating wildfires that took 12 lives and damaged over $16 million in property. In 2004, wildfires burned 8 million acres in 40 states.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carriedout by the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. It builds…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The assessment is of current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) focuses on new literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of mitigation of climate change, published since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) and the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walsh
Power point presentation at Governor's Climate Change Sub-Cabinet Meeting, 22 May 2007
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Stocks
From the text...'The measurement of temperature in forest fires is complicated by the tendency of thermocouples to radiate heat to cooler surroundings outside the flame, and thus to register less than the true flame temperature. In the United States, this problem has been…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams, McLean, Hodgson
From the Introduction:'This paper has been prepared to provide some background information on the present utilization of airtankers in suppressing forest fires in Canada and to explore what might be done to improve the use pattern of this important but expensive fire control…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the Introduction: 'The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various fuels can absorb water. The present study is concerned primarily with relative absorption and drying rates between various types of fuels. Future research will attempt to determine…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willington
This study was initiated to determine the impact of clearcutting, slashburning and skidroads on deep (>3 feet) coarse glacial soil at low elevations (<1000 ft. above sea level) of coastal British Columbia.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Thomas
Because cribs of wood are widely used to produce experimental fires it is sometimes necessary to predict their burning behavior especially when their burning rate is not controlled primarily by some other factor such as the window opening in a compartment. If the window is large…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
From the text ... 'Improved utilization of bark is dependent, to a large degree, on knowledge of its properties. Very little information is available on physical properties of bark, however, and none is available on volumetric changes of bark due to moisture sorption. A…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meroney
A model forest canopy was designed to simulate the meteorological characteristics of typical live forests. Measurements were made of velocity, turbulence, drag, and gaseous plume spread within the simulated canopy. The resulting data compares favorably with Prototype field…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Webb
From the text... 'Of all the meteorological elements which are known to affect forest fuel flammability and fire behaviour, rain is the most variable in its areal distribution. in its frequency, and particularly in its amount. While the measurement of rainfall is simple,…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A method for estimating wood volume on the ground is described. It requires only a diameter tally of pieces intersected by a sample line, and application of a simple formula. Theory for the formula is presented, and practical application discussed. The effect of bias in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Walker
From the text... 'It has long been recognized in forestry that minor vegetation leafing out on the forest floor in the early spring retards the advance of surface fires. This experiment was designed to provide some general understanding of this effect. The work was done in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
In laboratory tests, the size of a flame front can significantly affect the rate of fire spread. The configuration factor of a given flame shape provides a method for relating flame fronts of various widths. The author discusses an analog system for determining the configuration…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flora
Appraisal of damage to forests from insects, fire, and disease has been approached in many ways. In North America, at least, no single Thing to Do has evolved. With the help of comments by Pooh and his associates, the article is a brief review of alternative damage appraisal…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Game theory and decision theory could help a fireboss evaluate strategies to use in forest fire control. This paper describes several types of matrix games, subjective utility, and various criteria for strategy selection. It shows, in scenario forms, how decision theory might be…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breuer
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES